In Pursuit With Joseph Mencel

In this episode of In Pursuit, Joseph and Brandon answer four real questions from listeners covering goal setting, fitness trends, business decisions, and emerging supplement picks.

They unpack what happens when you’re juggling too many goals at once, how to figure out which ones to drop, and what to double down on.

Joseph shares his take on the rise of Hyrox and run clubs, and what this shift means for the future of fitness and su...

In this episode of In Pursuit, Joseph breaks down one of the most overlooked forms of discipline: the courage to have hard conversations.

Whether it’s in business, relationships, or leadership - too many people avoid tough chats out of fear, ego, or the desire to be liked. But dodging those moments comes at a cost: wasted time, eroded trust, built-up resentment, and a slow decline in self-respect.

Joseph explores why people shy awa...

In this episode of In Pursuit, Joseph and Brandon answer four diverse questions from listeners, each one digging into the real decisions behind business, life, and longevity.

They unpack whether it’s enough to be passionate about building a business, even if the product doesn’t excite you, and why lack of passion will eventually catch up with you. Joseph then shares how his view on why juggling the different areas of his life has s...

In this episode of In Pursuit, Joseph and Brandon dive into the chaos of over-the-top morning routines and the rise of personal development habits that feel productive but often miss the mark.

From ice baths and red light therapy to multi-step journalling rituals, they break down how self-improvement has turned into a full-time job for some, and why it doesn’t need to be that complicated.

Joseph shares the five low input, h...

No fluff. No theory. No advice from the sidelines. In Pursuit is built different, just like the people who listen to it.

In this second episode of In Pursuit, Joseph and co-host Brandon introduce Your 4. A sharp, no-filter Q&A segment answering four real questions from the audience.

They break down what it really takes to post high-volume content without burning out, the harsh reality of letting staff go during the chaos of COV...

No fluff. No theory. No advice from the sidelines. In Pursuit is built different, just like the people who listen to it.

In this first episode, I’m laying it all out. The wins, the losses, the lessons I had to learn the hard way. Building businesses, getting married, going through divorce, turning pro, running shows, investing in crypto, battling through mental health struggles and everything in between. This is my origin story.

Ev...

99 episodes in the books. One final episode to close it out.

After more than a year, Fitness x Business returns for its final instalment. The 5 biggest lessons from the entire journey.

Opportunity Cost, Discipline Over Motivation, Controlling Your Controllables, Success Capacity, and Confronting The 3 Fears That Stand Between You And Who You Want To Become.

No fluff. Just the principles that matter.

And then, what’s next. The evolu...

Trying to balance all of the different areas of your life can often leave you feeling like a circus clown spinning plates, forever jumping from one plate to another, trying to keep them all from coming crashing down.

And that's the challenge with the pursuit of balance... it's fragile in its nature.

But what if balance wasn't the goal? What if instead of spinning plates, the different areas of your life were interconnected like gea...

Your goal is to fill the bucket up.

And it’s easy. At least when you first start. All you have to do is focus on pouring more liquid into it. More input, more productivity, more effort. 

And as it should, the level of liquid in the bucket rises.

Until it stops. And then starts dropping.

So you focus on pouring more into it. More & more input, more & more productivity, more & more effort. But the level keeps dropping. You keep slidi...

Building a start-up business is hard.

And even harder when you have limited resources, no access to finance or capital, and literally start from the bottom, bootstrapping every step along the way.

But it is possible. And The WOD Life are home grown proof.

In this episode, Joseph Mencel sits down with co-founders of The WOD Life, Ben Dineen and Andy Lee, to talk about how they have built a multimillion dollar, world renowned busines...

Vision without passion is just a fantasy.

Vision & passion without action is just an illusion. But when you combine vision, passion & action in pursuit of your most ambitious goals, you can change the world.

And Tony Doherty has proven it.

Affectionately known as the Godfather of Bodybuilding in Australia, Tony has arguably achieved more in the fitness business than anybody else in the country.

From Doherty’s Gyms, to the Doherty’s...